My EV sits in the driveway and soaks up excess production from my PV setup.
My main problem is it's never really empty enough.
If I'm on the road, a high voltage DC charger gets me from 10% to 50% in about 10 minutes. Barely enough time for a coffee and a leak, then it's another 2 hours of driving. Rinse, repeat.
Sure, you can't barrel down the Autobahn for 10 hours straight without stopping but who wants that?
Depending on your level of caffeine tolerance/dependency actual coffee might be even better.
Alternatively: Decaf.
Yeah, inductive charging is basically a must.
Especially because it eliminates the guesswork if the watch is correctly seated to charge
Oh, they're putting a lot of thought into it I'm sure.
That thought being "Money, Money, Money, Profit, Profit" of course.
No actual technical solution here, but it smells slightly of XY-Problems.
From what you described it seems the main issues are
Maybe you could look into solutions like setting a custom ringtone for important callers or having the phone announce caller names so your mother can decide if she wants to make the effort to get her phone.
I'm speculating a bit here but I can imagine that getting up and answering the phone is exhausting for your mother. Also if her mindset is " a ringing phone means it's important" that could make it even more stressful.
Maybe you could find a way to let her silence all calls except caregivers and ICE contacts. (On Android DND exceptions could work for that)
That way she doesn't feel pressured to answer the phone every time it rings and stays reachable.
If it's actually just the physical issue of reaching the phone in time, does she have a convenient way to carry the phone indoors like a lanyard?
Hope some of this helps you
Man könnte noch argumentieren, dass es in Sichtweite gilt und die Bewohner dieser Institution durchaus kurzsichtig sind.
That's a legitimate concern, but this can be easily mitigated by routing "guest" traffic into a VPN.
Guests might encounter more captchas than usual but better than no internet.
That feature is right on the border between real neat tech and deeply unsettling.
"Hey, my phone uses its last few electrons to turn into a bluetooth beacon to stay findable" sounds like sci-fi "reserve power emergency mode"
"I can't turn off the locator chip in a device that holds half my life and memories" is just dystopian.
I'm wondering if there would be a way to keep it useful while minimizing impact for people who stay off the grid. A hardware switch would probably be a good start but they won't fly with current all-touch designs.
Wow, that sounds like a decent start for an architecture.
I'm tempted to spin up a few Jellyfin instances to see how it might work...
Decent writeup by Charles Stross:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon-in-the-news.html
The mode of operation of WorldCon/the Hugos seems interesting as in "May you live in interesting times"
Edit: fixed auto-co-wrecked spelling of Charles Stross
JellyFed(eration) would be awesome. It should use an anonymous overlay network so federation is not limited to people you trust in copyright-zealous jurisdictions.
They should not be worried, they should be educated.
If you worry a new user enough they'll go back to Windows or Apple because there's less scary warnings there.
We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.